SafeLink Wireless Program

SafeLink Wireless Program

SafeLink Wireless Program is among the most popular providers of the government’s Lifeline program. Lifeline is a government initiative that is an improvement over long existing help programs, upgrading from the provision of landlines to the provision of cell phones, in pace with the technologically advancing world. SafeLink WireLess Program has been provided by TracFone Wireless Inc, and its services have been extended in more states than just one across USA.


Who does SafeLink Wireless Program serve?

SafeLink Wireless Program is a service through which the company identifies deserving households to be provided with a free cell phone and free talk time. SafeLink Wireless Program places these free phones and minutes well within reach of those who already avail themselves of other governmental assistance programs like of Medicaid, Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF), Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (Food Stamps or SNAP), Federal Public Housing Assistance (Section 8), Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP), Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and The National School Lunch Program’s Free Lunch Program.

SafeLink Wireless Program

SafeLink Wireless program offers more than just 60 minutes of free minutes prescribed by Lifeline. One subscribing to this service can avail themselves of not just free minutes, but also highly subsidized additional services like messaging and Internet, apart from being able to afford additional talk time at pocket-friendly rates.

Availing yourself of SafeLink Wireless program

To be a part of SafeLink wireless program, all one needs to do is provide the company with proper documentation that proves their eligibility for the program. If your household is not a recipient of any assistance program, you can also choose to present proof that the total income of your household is 135% of or lesser than that dictated by Federal Poverty Guidelines. Once these documents have been submitted, you can count on receiving your free cell phone and minutes being delivered to you in a matter of a couple of days.

SafeLink Wireless program is a no-contract service that you can avail of till you experience an upward economic mobility that gives you the ability to afford your own phone. A user of SafeLink Wireless program phone is required only to renew his / her application with the company annually, as a part of the latter’s efforts to ensure that there is no scope for foul play in the process.

Limitations on SafeLink Wireless program

The objective of the Lifeline program is to provide as many low income families with free government cell phones as possible. SafeLink Wireless program is one of the many media through which this is achieved. Thus rules are enforced to ensure that no undue advantage is taken of by the program. Only the heads of low income households are eligible to apply for the services, and they are to ensure that no other member of the family is already a recipient of the benefits of this program. No household is permitted to have more than one Lifeline free government phone.

Once a part of the SafeLink Wireless program, you will not need to reapply time and again, but you are required to refresh your application annually. This is simply to ensure that the subscriber continues to be eligible of the service. There are no binding contracts involved and no monthly bills.


The only restriction of this service continues to be that each household is allowed but one phone. This is because service providers sometimes operate and grant services to applicants based on the availability of resources, and allowing more than one phone per household may result in uneven distribution of these resources among the deserving members of the population.

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I fill out application for SafeLink and now I am wondering if safelink would send me replacement phone in the mail.

nate

trying to find free phone booth around my area 43222 where they set up tents

Free Cell Phones and Smartphones

Hi nate, Safelink has a great tool that will help you to find the answer: https://www.safelink.com/wps/portal/home/retailers